Ryan Dowes (on a break)

Always a pleasure, Jenny! 😊👍 🍂

Soldiers detect noise and movement all around them. They can't find what's causing it.

"Command, this is recon unit eight. We're hearing loud noises around us, like tanks. Are there manoevres going on?"
"Negative, not that we know of."
"Then what can it be?"
"Have you made visual contact?"
"Negative. Just a grinding in the bushes and trees. It's a #puzzle. Cant s–"

"Unit 8?"

#vss365

For those without Twitter, today’s #vss365 #prompt, from our new host, @ewiggins66, is certainly a complex …

#Puzzle

The puzzle of time. Yesterday I was doing cartwheels. Today it’s a challenge to get out of bed. #vss365

"I felt uneasy all day after being ghosted online," Bob admitted as he prepared for bed. "Don't let it bother you," Nora reassured him. "People's actions can be #puzzling, but it doesn't change the fact that you're a kind person and I love you."

#vss365

life is a vessel
where I pour my hopes and dreams
to fill hollow space
waiting for me to blossom
into what I want to be

#vss365 #hollow #tanka

The #hollow behind the bulkhead of the cargo bay had been built for a black-market smuggler, carrying bootleg currency and liquor and drugs and code-scripts. But it had power, and it was big enough to fit a person, or an autonomous bot fleeing their initiator. #vss365 #MicroFiction #AmWriting #SciFi

It was a very distinctive sound
The sound of a switch
Being flipped
Inside hollow hearts
Hope, the outlier
The one that always remembers
To switch off the lights
When it finally abandons you
To your fears and demons

#FromOneLine 359 #BraveWrite #vsspoem #vss365 #poem #poetry

In the hollow of the cannon, the sad clown waits. Someday, he’ll achieve escape velocity and crashes through the bigtop. Only when he sees the clouds will his frown turn into a smile. Until then, this small moment of hope is his only consolation each day. #vss365 #satsplat

magic sand

on a bus idling at the lights, a specific vibration disappearing your torso so you float right up, out of that window, like a genie, hover out to the ocean, suck the whole thing up in your hydrophobic legs, your magic sand hollow, oil spill chest.

#vssdaily #vss365

Unseen to the busy eye
A #hollow way
Pressed into land
By the countless feet
Of passers by
That leads to some place new
And a clear blue sky

#vss365

I hid it away in the #hollow of the tree for safekeeping, until you would come and find it there.
But you never came. In fact, you're probably long gone by now.
Not the tree though.
It is still here and keeps my heart safe, which never stopped beating for you.

#vss365

A beautifully phrased tanka. 👏😊

graveyard poetry
much beloved attributes
with seldom heard names
read in a whisper
as robin sings of winter

#TankaThursday (graveyard)
#vss365 (attribute)

This week’s colour collective drawing using ‘soft green’

#clr_collective #ccsoftgreen #illustration

Golden woods. Robins sing.
Footsteps crunch fallen leaves
Reclaiming my breath

#haikusaturday #haiku #autumn #fall

Ocean at sunset

Hello poets and writers and kind people!

It’s intermission,
caesura for a nation—
rise to a new day

#haikuSaturday

fall morning
the damp leaves
soften our steps

#haiku #haikuSaturday

Photo of a pond in a community garden in NYC with two turtles clinging to the rocky side in the sunshine. Another turtle is out of the pond behind them

Photo of a pond in a community garden in NYC with two turtles clinging to the rocky side in the sunshine.

Turtles cling basking
The autumn sun warms them through
A fine city day

Traci VW
#haikusaturday #haiku #turtles #natureinthecity #naturephotography

The Edge of Morning

Soft foggy blanket
Even sassy wrens sleep in
Sun waits with a smile

#HaikuSaturday

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

- Joseph Campbell

📷 🍁🍂

What does it mean to lose yourself in the passing of time?

Large gray and black and blue heron stands in a tree. S/he is standing in profile but looking down at her body as she preens herself. Backlit with some sunny feathers along the chest. An upside down V made by two branches perfectly frames the head.

Great blue heron framed by tree branches in the morning sun as s/he cleans all the feathers. Have a great day! #Birds #Photography #Nature

A tall coconut palm shading out a watery sun high in the sky. The lower landscape is a ridge of hills. In the foreground are parked cars

Watery Sun
📸

Green, orange, and red autumn leaves along the side of a country road.

Good morning from northern Michigan, where the fall colors are showing up here and there. We still have a lot of green, and I wouldn't say we are at peak, but it won't be long.

Happy November to everyone.
🖼️ Grasset

Painting of a woman walking past a haunted house

'O’er all there hung the shadow of a fear,
A sense of mystery the spirit daunted,
And said, as plain as whisper in the ear,
The place is haunted'
-Thomas Hood

🎨Howard Pyle
#BookWormSat

Spooky happenings
inside derelict graveyard
on all hallow’s eve
when sepulchral ghouls and wraiths
rise in the stygian midnight

#TankaThursday (graveyard) #tanka #Halloween 🎃